Evening with Vladimir Solovyov (№ 408561)

- And capitalism does not take root here. [remark by Vladimir Solovyov]
- I understood this important moment when I became the director of Mosfilm. The fact is that Russia is a very expensive country in terms of utilities. It does not stand up to competition in terms of utilities, and in terms of distances. Now in Los Angeles +25 degrees. There is no need for a roof, no need to clean icicles, no heating - none of this is needed. Even from this point of view, everything we do always has an element that we cannot cope without the participation of the state. And what is state involvement? This is socialism. This is what society should help its producers. But our society has hardly done anything since the '90s. Now they started doing it. Here is a simple example - V. V. Putin, I believe, adopted a brilliant decree from January 1 to prohibit the export of unprocessed wood. This means that investments will go here, jobs will appear. But it took thirty years. And why couldn't it be done in '92? It's such an obvious thing that... They exported round timber to China, left, right...